From the course: Agile Project Management: Comparing Agile Tools

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Summary of JIRA

Summary of JIRA

From the course: Agile Project Management: Comparing Agile Tools

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Summary of JIRA

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- [Instructor] This brings us to the end of our tour of Jira. And as you can probably see, Jira is an excellent bug tracking program. That's a good and a bad thing because keeping track of bugs and issues isn't the same as helping your team embrace a more agile mindset. Like any tool, Jira can encourage you to practice things a certain way. My car encourages me to use less gas by having a little dial that shows me how much gas I use every time I press the accelerator. If you're trying to install a new component in a server, there can be arrows and points of alignment to help you install the part correctly, and that's where Jira really runs into some challenges. It treats user stories and tasks like issues, and at the very core, these aren't bugs or issues. User stories are like little placeholders for your team to have a conversation. And tasks are like little bits of work that each individual developer can commit to every day. In Jira, everything's just part of the to-do list. You…

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